As part of the Grec Festival 2025 run of Massilia at Teatre Akadèmia, a special session will be held on Wednesday, July 2, featuring a post-performance colloquium with the director, authors, and cast.
The event invites the audience to go beyond the stage and engage directly with the creative team behind the final installment of the trilogy dedicated to the Republican exile. Following the performance, producer Òscar García and the cast –Laura María González, Júlia Molins, Martí Salvat, Lluís Marquès– will participate in an open conversation with Carmina Gustrán Loscos, commissioner of the commemorative programme 50 en Libertad, addressing the artistic process and the historical issuer that shape the play. The debate will be presented and moderated by Oriol López Badell, coordinator of the EUROM.
Massilia is a powerful theatrical reflection on memory, displacement, and identity. It centers on a 1939 voyage to Buenos Aires undertaken by Spanish Republican exiles—many of them artists and intellectuals—fleeing fascist Spain. The play explores not only their arrival in Argentina but also the dissonance between the ideals they carried and the complex political realities they encountered.
One of the work’s most compelling questions—explored with subtlety and urgency—is how the legacy of exile resonates across generations, especially in light of the current political climate in Argentina, where some descendants of exiles now find themselves drawn to far-right ideologies.
Produced by La Jarra Azul, Puça Espetacles, Teatre Akademia and Grec Gestival Barcelona in collaboration with the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM) and España en Libertad, Massilia concludes a trulogy that began in 2005 with Los niños de Morelia and continued with Winnipeg, el vaixell de Neruda, premiered at the 2020 edition of Grec. The cycle revisits the mass exodus of Spanish Republicans who, escaping fascist repression, embarked on ships bound for exile in the Americas.
The production is directed by acclaimed Argentine theatre-maker Nelson Valente, founder of Banfield Teatro Ensamble. The script is co-authored by Albert Boronat (1936, Prostitución, Una casa en la montaña) and Maria Donoso, known for her work in community-based theatre initiatives. Their collaboration brings together voices with deep ties to Spain’s memory culture and contemporary dramaturgy.
For full details on Massilia and ticket reservations, visit Teatre Akadèmia’s website.